On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:54:01 +0000 Stuart Auchterlonie 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> Phil Chambers wrote:
> > I have a strange situation which I can't explain.
> > 
> > I have an Internet-facing front-end server using exim with ClamAV.  I also 
> > have 
> > the Sanesecurity signatures installed. Delivery is achieved by relaying to 
> > an 
> > Exchange server which is behind the firewall.
> > 
> > Some users have re-direction set up so that the Exchange server passes 
> > messages 
> > back to the front-end server for onward transmission. Note, this is 
> > re-direction, not forwarding, so the messages just have an extra Received: 
> > line 
> > added to the header.
> > 
> > Several times per day I see messages to some of these users being rejected 
> > by 
> > ClamAV as they are being received back from the Exchange server for 
> > re-direction!
> > 
> > That means that the messages have been cleared by ClamAV as they arrive 
> > from 
> > the Internet but are then rejected a few seconds later when returning! So 
> > far 
> > they have all been Sanesecurity signatures which have caused this.
> > 
> > One thought is that Exchange could possible be re-writing attachments, but 
> > that 
> > would mean that ClamAV is sensitive to the way in which attachments are 
> > encoded.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> It's possibly something along the lines of what we see occasionally with
> SPF verification.
> 
> Since the email is forwarded on from the exchange server, the email
> still appears to be from the original user, but it is now coming from
> your exchange server.
> 
> In the SPF case your email server isn't an authorized server for the
> originating domain, and so the email gets bounced due to an SPF
> violation.
> 
> Now if the sanesecurity sigs do some verification which relates the
> sending domain with the server the email was sent from, this could
> be the problem you are seeing.
> 
> 
> Stuart

I was not aware that there was any way to get clamd to do anything other than 
check the content of messages.  The Sanesecurity signatures are just a set of 
phishing and scam signatures for ClamAV which are used in addition to the 
standard ClamAV ones.

Given that ClamAV reports finding "Email.Spam.Sanesecurity.Url_269", for 
example, how do I look up the signature that clamd is using for that?

Phil.
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Phil Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Exeter

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